the visitor
“Inspired by the hushed daylight scares of John Carpenter’s Halloween and the dense textural noise of Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales Of Mystery & Imagination that seem to cloak and conceal their subjects, I set about staging some unsettling figure-centric photographs of my own. Turns out it is easy to spook yourself, even when you know you’re the one taking the photographs. This is what director John Carpenter knows too; you don’t need much to elicit menace: all you need do is lurk.“ October 2023
